Nintendo block 18+ rated content from being
viewed/bought at certain times

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Wow, seriously Europe? I mean really? Naked boobs, wieners and butts are perfectly normal there on regular TV and everywhere else. Is it a violence thing?

It's based on the PEGI ratings of the game. This means that any eShop game with a high age rating (for whatever reason) could be affected by this. For the sake of perspective, PEGI 18-rated games on the Wii U are ZombiU, Assassin's Creed 3, COD: Black Ops 2 and Mass Effect 3.

By the way, just for the sake of clarity: there is this myth that Europe is okay with sex but not violence and the US is okay with violence but not sex. In reality, most of Europe is fine with showing violence in entertainment targeted towards adults. Only a very few European countries have any really restrictive laws on the depiction of violence.

Wow, seriously Europe? I mean really? Naked boobs, wieners and butts are perfectly normal there on regular TV and everywhere else. Is it a violence thing?

It's based on the PEGI ratings of the game. This means that any eShop game with a high age rating (for whatever reason) could be affected by this. For the sake of perspective, PEGI 18-rated games on the Wii U are ZombiU, Assassin's Creed 3, COD: Black Ops 2 and Mass Effect 3.

By the way, just for the sake of clarity: there is this myth that Europe is okay with sex but not violence and the US is okay with violence but not sex. In reality, most of Europe is fine with showing violence in entertainment targeted towards adults. Only a very few European countries have any really restrictive laws on the depiction of violence.

It's not which one of the two is hated and the other is loved. It is just considered which one is considered more severe. America considers sex and nudity to be more severe than violence whereas a lot of Europe doesn't view sex and nudity as harshly and thus by that account violence is the more severe one. I think you are looking at that statement the wrong way.